Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 70
It will be sore for you, A game of life and death, For all the young men who live here Are your enemies, and will seek To slay you in the rush By crowding close together, And trampling you under foot.
Who acts: It, young men, you · What happens: be, live, seek, slay, crowd, trampling · To what, where: enemies, you, rush, foot
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, young men, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sore | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sore | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sore | cop |
| 4 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sore | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 game | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sore | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 game | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 death | cc |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 game | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 men | punct |
| 15 | For | for | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 men | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 enemies | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 live | nsubj |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 men | acl:relcl |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 live | advmod |
| 23 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 enemies | cop |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sore | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seek | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seek | cc |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 seek | aux |
| 29 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sore | conj |
| 30 | To | to | PART | _ | 31 slay | mark |
| 31 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 seek | xcomp |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 slay | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 rush | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rush | det |
| 35 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 slay | obl |
| 36 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 37 crowding | mark |
| 37 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 slay | advcl |
| 38 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 crowding | advmod |
| 39 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 crowding | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 trampling | punct |
| 41 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 trampling | cc |
| 42 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seek | obl |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 trampling | nsubj |
| 44 | under | under | ADP | _ | 45 foot | case |
| 45 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trampling | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | for you; a game of life and death conj; sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | all young men | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | all young men | your enemies | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | seek | future | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | slay not said to happen | to-infinitive | you | the rush | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 6 | crowd | gerund | close, together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | trampling | you | foot | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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